Comments on: Foleygate is not an ironic diversion

By: Jonesy

Jonesy — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:35:53 +0000

People need to stop using “GOP”, and say Republicans instead. I’ll bet 90% of people have no idea what GOP means. Just a pet peeve I have. I wish somebody would do a poll, Im sure it’d prove that Im right.
Now back to Foley, carry on.

By: Xanthippas

Xanthippas — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:13:51 +0000

Amen brother. This scandal IS the Republican party; if they continue in power, we can only expect more of the same. Their goal isn’t good governance; it’s power, and giving their base (the wealthy, not social conservatives) what they want. That’s a recipe for more disasters.

By: Stephen Kriz

Stephen Kriz — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:39:15 +0000

The GOP apparently doesn’t believe in the phrase, “promote the general welfare” of the United States in the preamble to the Constitution.

By: Brian Boru

Brian Boru — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:44:45 +0000

It’s a real bitch when you end up showing not only dad but the whole world that you are in fact an ignorant, careless wastrel. The thought came to me a few weeks ago while reading Jonathan
Alter’s The Defining Moment that Alter’s unstated subtext was the story of one neer-do-well momma’s boy who indeed did better than well in contrast with another neer-do-well momma’s boy who has f’d up everything he’s ever gone near.

By: BroD

BroD — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:51:06 +0000

Dead on, Michael!
Word.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:52:24 +0000

There was more evidence of Foley’s wrongdoing than there was evidence of Iraq’s WMDs.

By: Prup (aka Jim Benton)

Prup (aka Jim Benton) — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:16:54 +0000

What is important about Foley’s Follies is that it hits home to people who aren’t ‘political junkies,’ or people who don’t know much about the Constitution, or people who might not be as sure as we are that torture is wrong, to get what they think might be information stopping another 9/11, or who are willing to give the President the ‘benefit of the doubt’ on Iraq — since Saddam WAS a monster who everyone is glad to see gone.
These people are not stupid, they just don’t spend the time we do thinking about politics, law, and freedom. But this shows the Republicans to be liars and hypocrites, and thus ’scratches the teflon.’ They can look again at what we have been telling them, and look again at what the Witches of Slandor have been saying. It opens their minds to realize what has been going on.
On the other hand, there is TRUE irony in Foley’s Follies. What he did was perfectly legal — though not who he did it with, the pages who were under the House’s supposed protection — until a Congressman led the charge towards making internet sex with anyone under 18 illegal. That Congressman was, of course…
Mark Foley.